Portal:US Railways/March 3
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- 1831
– George Pullman, founder of Pullman Company, is born in Brocton, New York. - 1849 – The Pacific Railroad is chartered in Missouri to build a line from Pacific to Rolla, Missouri.
- 1852 – The Flushing Rail Road, a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road, is chartered in New York.[1]
- 1866 – The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac and Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Connection is chartered in Virginia to build a connection between its namesake lines.
- 1949
– California's Public Utilities Commission grants authority to the San Diego Transit System to abandon its remaining streetcar lines. - 1971 – Penn Central publishes its last public passenger train timetable before the inauguration of Amtrak.
References
- ↑ Long Island Rail Road History. Arrt's Arrchives. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
See also
